From last night’s “All-Stars.”
On Obama’s performance at the Summit of the Americas:
The Obama people, after he criticizes America in Europe, and after he stands utterly silent when America’s excoriated at this meeting in Trinidad, say he is planting the seeds for a new relationship.
Well, I’m watching for the flowers to bloom and the garden to grow. To me, it looks like a Chauncey gardener doctrine, that everything will happen in the future. Let’s see. I’m not that sure.
The most telling moment, however, was when Daniel Ortega, the president of Nicaragua, delivered a 53-minute excoriating attack on the United States. And Obama’s response was “I’m grateful that President Ortega did not blame me for the things that occurred when I was three months old.”
Does the narcissism of this man know no bounds? This is not about him. It is about his country. This is something that occurred under John Kennedy — the Bay of Pigs is what he is referring to. And what he is saying is that it’s OK that he attacked John Kennedy, as long as it wasn’t me.
Doesn’t it occur to him that he ought to defend his country even if stuff happened before him? It doesn’t all start with him.
And with all of these attacks on the U.S., he said almost nothing except I don’t want to engage in stale arguments. It’s not a stale argument to say in one simple sentence that American policy in Cuba since Eisenhower and Kennedy has been to try to rid these people of a communist dictatorship that imposed itself by force 50 years ago.
That’s all he had to say, but he couldn’t, and he didn’t.
On Ahmadinejad’s speech at Durban II:
You would expect this at a conference like this to begin with an Orwellian event, where a man delivers an anti-Semitic rant at a conference that’s ostensibly against racism.
But the deeper story is that for 30 years the third world countries have used their majority in the U.N. to hijack western ideas of liberalism such as human rights.
This conference is going to issue an edict in which it says that the persecution of anybody who criticizes Islam is a good thing and is a defense of the freedom of speech. The persecution is the way of defending freedom of speech.
And here’s the worst part. We are subsidizing this through our membership in the U.N. We may have walked out, but we are the ones who are paying for the sandbox in which these tin pot dictators are shooting spit balls at us, and we’re subsidizing the spit balls as well.